Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 606 806
Rank change year-on-year -13 +200 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 93 53 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 63 34 68
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,875 £54,250
25th Percentile £65,500 £64,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £87,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 85,551 39,541 91,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.78% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,475 22,949 67,336
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 85 £70,000 -9.68% 24
London -12 64 £80,000 +1.59% 16
Work from Home +36 30 £74,500 +15.50% 11
UK excluding London -29 26 £70,000 +12.00% 13
North of England -30 11 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Yorkshire -41 9 £70,000 +16.67%
Midlands -28 4 £62,500 -3.85%
Northern Ireland - 4 £75,000 - 3
South East -15 3 £85,000 +36.00% 2
East of England -22 2 £70,000 -17.65% 1
East Midlands -32 2 £65,000 -
Scotland - 2 £74,283 -
West Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
North West +5 1 £80,000 +33.33% 2
North East - 1 £52,000 - 2

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) Python
2 37 (39.78%) AWS
3 30 (32.26%) AI
4 29 (31.18%) Test Automation
5 24 (25.81%) Software Engineering
6 21 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (20.43%) OO
7 19 (20.43%) OOP
8 18 (19.35%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 18 (19.35%) C++
8 18 (19.35%) Linux
8 18 (19.35%) Low Latency
8 18 (19.35%) Order Management
9 17 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (16.13%) Agile
11 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
11 14 (15.05%) Flask
12 13 (13.98%) React
13 11 (11.83%) Generative AI
14 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.75%) Intelligent Automation
14 10 (10.75%) Product Vision
14 10 (10.75%) Resource Allocation
14 10 (10.75%) RESTful
14 10 (10.75%) SaaS
14 10 (10.75%) SDLC
14 10 (10.75%) Serverless
15 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (9.68%) Change Management
16 8 (8.60%) Machine Learning

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.78%) AWS
2 10 (10.75%) SaaS
2 10 (10.75%) Serverless
3 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (7.53%) Azure
5 5 (5.38%) GitHub
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.23%) Azure AI
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.08%) Dagster
9 1 (1.08%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) Broadband
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) MongoDB
1 8 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.30%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.08%) GIS
4 1 (1.08%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) GitLab
1 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) Git
3 1 (1.08%) MLflow
General
1 22 (23.66%) Finance
2 18 (19.35%) Front Office
3 10 (10.75%) Health Technology
4 8 (8.60%) Tech for Good
5 7 (7.53%) Games
6 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.38%) Social Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Publishing
9 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.35%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 14 (15.05%) Flask
3 13 (13.98%) React
4 10 (10.75%) RESTful
5 6 (6.45%) FastAPI
6 5 (5.38%) Vue
7 4 (4.30%) Django
7 4 (4.30%) HTML
7 4 (4.30%) Node.js
7 4 (4.30%) Swagger
8 2 (2.15%) CSS
8 2 (2.15%) NumPy
8 2 (2.15%) Pandas
8 2 (2.15%) REST
8 2 (2.15%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (1.08%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.08%) boto
9 1 (1.08%) JWT
9 1 (1.08%) OpenLayers
9 1 (1.08%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.66%) Cloud Native
2 21 (22.58%) Algorithms
3 18 (19.35%) Data Structures
3 18 (19.35%) Equities
3 18 (19.35%) Hedge funds
3 18 (19.35%) Management Information System
4 15 (16.13%) Educational Technology
5 10 (10.75%) PropTech
6 7 (7.53%) Low-Code
6 7 (7.53%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (4.30%) NHS
9 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.26%) AI
2 29 (31.18%) Test Automation
3 24 (25.81%) Software Engineering
4 21 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (20.43%) OO
5 19 (20.43%) OOP
6 18 (19.35%) Low Latency
6 18 (19.35%) Order Management
7 17 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (16.13%) Agile
9 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
10 11 (11.83%) Generative AI
11 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (10.75%) Intelligent Automation
11 10 (10.75%) Product Vision
11 10 (10.75%) Resource Allocation
11 10 (10.75%) SDLC
12 9 (9.68%) Change Management
13 8 (8.60%) Machine Learning
14 7 (7.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 93 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (19.35%) C++
3 7 (7.53%) Go
3 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.30%) SQL
4 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.08%) Databricks